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Bibliography & FAQ

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Bibliography

Novels:
  • The Ultra Thin Man; Tor Books, 2014
  • The Ultra Big Sleep; Fairwood Press, 2016
  • Rain Music; Fairwood Press, 2021
  • The Ultra Long Goodbye; Fairwood Press, 2023
Short Fiction:
  • “A Bird Alone” Grimoire: Seattle Worldcon; Grim Oak Press, 2025 (Forthcoming)
  • “Greening in the Dark” The Muddy Goose Guide to the Weird Northwest; Demagogue Press, 2025 (Forthcoming)
  • “Sails at Dusk” Unavowed; Grim Oak Press, 2025 (Forthcoming)
  • “Stream of Consciousness” Glen Must Die; Impulsive Walrus Books 2026 (Forthcoming)
  • “The Dead Letter” Madam President; B Cubed Press, 2024
  • “The Silent Passage” Crooked Vol 2; Bad Intentions Press, 2022
  • “Seeds” Gunfight on Europa Station; Baen Books, 2022
  • “Homecoming” Unbound II; Grim Oak Press, 2022
  • “Hope to See the Ghost Tonight” Seasons Between Us; Laksa Media Groups Inc, 2021
  • “Hawkeye” Unfettered III; Grim Oak Press, 2019
  • Slightly Ruby (novella); Fairwood Press, 2016
  • “The Scenery of Paradise” Like Water for Quarks; Independent, 2011
  • “Never Brought to Mind” Midnight Zoo, 1992
  • “Keep the Home Fires Burning” Figment, 1992
  • “The Cavity” Heliocentric Net Magazine, 1992
  • “The Siren” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, 1990
  • “Fugue” Northwest Magazine, 1989
Edited:
  • The Best of Talebones; Fairwood Press, 2010
  • Imagination Fully Dilated: SF (with Bob Kruger); Fairwood Press, 2003
  • Talebones Magazine (with Honna Swenson); 1995-2007, Issues #1-35
  • Talebones Magazine; 2008-2009, Issues #36-39

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FAQs

Who are your favorite authors?

For science fiction, I’m somewhat old school, growing up with Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Philip K. Dick, Patricia McKillip, Joan Vinge, Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Le Guin. I could go on. Frank Herbert’s Dune single-handedly threw me into my love affair with this genre. For literary fiction, my favorites are probably Steve Erickson (not the fantasy writer), Cormac McCarthy, Jeanette Winterson, Emily St. John Mandell, Toni Morrison, and more. I’m a lover of mystery/crime too: Elmore Leonard, Robert B. Parker, James Lee Burke, James W. Hall, Carl Hiassen, David Joy, Michael Connelly, Amy Pochoda, Charlotte MccConaghy, and more.

Favorite novels?

Dune (Frank Herbert), Tours of the Black Clock (Steve Erickson), The Passion (Jeanette Winterson), Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel), Siddhartha (Herman Hesse), The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini), Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison), A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving), The Road (Cormac McCarthy), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick), Get Shorty (Elmore Leonard), the Spenser books (Robert B. Parker). How about a hard to find treasure I read during college days? The Last Western by Thomas S. Klise.

How about nonfiction? Including a “really out there” nonfiction book you treasure?

The “out there” book might be Godel, Escher, Bach, even though I don’t understand most of the math! If I had to narrow nonfiction to a few all-time favorites? Teacher Man (Frank McCourt) and Young Men and Fire (Norman Maclean). Although not too much of a sports fan, I found the book Friday Night Lights (H.G. Bissinger) quite fascinating. Lately, I’ve read a lot of science books. (I belong to a science book reading group). Favorites are: A Brief History of Intelligence (Max Bennet), The Light Eaters (Zoe Schlanger), Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker), What an Owl Knows (Jennifer Ackerman), The Brilliant Abyss (Helen Scales). For writing reference books, I’d go with The 10% Solution (Ken Rand), The Elements of Style (Strunk & White), Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg), and On Writing (Stephen King).

Okay, what’s the best writing advice you ever received?

Sit down and write, and leave out all the boring parts.